Inventory Control Specialist

RESPONSIBILITIES

Financial Reconciliation & Reporting

• Validate that all inventory related transactions (receipts, issues, transfers, adjustments, scrap, returns) are accurately recorded in Parity (inventory system) by the Operations team daily.
• Post Inventory transactions in Great Plains (accounting system)
• Reconcile inventory between GP and Parity
• Reconcile outside warehouse inventory to GP.
• Process inventory transactions for sales from outside warehouses to move finished goods from PB to PFFI within GP to support sales order fulfillment.
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies related to inventory quantities, units of measure, and transaction timing.
• Validate monthly transactions in financial reporting systems. Transaction Validation & Compliance
• Review transactions entered by operations, procurement, and warehouse teams to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with company policies.
• Identify incorrect or missing transactions and follow up with responsible teams to correct them.
• Monitor open POs, unmatched receipts, and unposted transactions to ensure timely resolution.
• Validate BOM accuracy, production reporting, and WIP movements as needed.

Process Monitoring & Issue Resolution

• Track recurring errors or process gaps and escalate systemic issues to management.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to correct root causes of inventory inaccuracies.
• Support cycle count and physical inventory processes by validating results and ensuring proper adjustments are recorded.
• Maintain documentation of reconciliation procedures and transaction workflows.
• Maintain standardized reports and dashboards for monitoring inventory accuracyMost important keys:
• Bachelors is a must
• Needs to be a thinker, who is willing to be trained
• Heavy reconciliations of data between different systems and resolving discrepancies with operating and accounting teams (standard month end, journal entries, etc)
• 1+ years experience would be ideal, open to college grad at lower comp
• Communicating issues to leadership and operations (corporate and onsite) and begin able to identify them
• will need to be meticulous and detail oriented
• great communicator to leadership at the plant onsite with them
• Training included
• Willing to evolve into an accounting role
• Software
• Great Plains (Accounting System), and Parity (Inventory System)